Cormac De Barra - Mr. O’connor

Cormac De Barra performing on St. Patrick’s Day in Pawling , NY at the Towne Crier Cafe. De Barra comes from a family of traditional musicians and singers from Dublin but with roots in County Cork. He studied Irish harp with his grandmother, Róisín Ní Shé, in Dublin and went on to study concert harp in the USA with Leone Paulson. “I was born and grew up in Dublin although the De Barras originally come from Cork. I started playing the harp at the age of 10 with my grandmother, Róisín Ní Shé and went on to spend some of the best summers of my life studying concert harp in the USA.“ Cormac’s professional debut was a six-month tour in Osaka, Japan playing in the Irish Exhibition at Expo ’90. While in Japan he gave a performance for Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko in their palace at Akasaka, Tokyo. Also present at the recital was Irish Nobel Laureate, Seamus Heaney. Cormac also spent six months in Seville, Spain, performing at E